The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-09
ROR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

MAJ. ZRRBLDA q. WALLACE ia lee.
turing in Rhode Island for the woman
suffrage amendment.
TIN Connecticut Legislative Com.
mittee has reported favorably bill to
give women school suffrage.
A NAN In Lima, Peru, has left $780,
600 to establish school in New. York
for the education OF poor girls,
THE University for the Higher Edu.
cation Of Women, at st, Petersburg,
has been closed by order Of the Gear,
The w. CT. u, of Emporia, Kas.,
walked to the City Clerks Office in
body and were registered. There were
ninety OF them.
Mss ALICE SANDB RN has been
elected Superintendent OF Schools for
Brule county, Oak, receiving 1000 Of
the 1900 votes cast.
NRs j. T. GILBERT. OF Milwaukee,
has offered to give that city copy OF
Miss Ammo Whitney's statue OF Lett
Ericsson, the Morse explorer.
MES ROSENBERG, OF the Treasury
Department at Washington, Is one OF
the best counterfeit detecters In the
world. She gets $500 a year.
In Wyoming, where women vote,
the law expressly provides that there
shall be no Discrimination on account
OF sex in the ay for any kind Of work.
Mis- ALICE X. JORDAN, who took the
degree of LID. at the Yale Law
School last June, has Just been ad-
mitted to practice in the Superior
Court Of Michigan.
Ar the close OF registration in
Leavenworth, Kan, March 25th, 526S
names had oeen entered on the books,
1764 OF whom were women, 43S OF the
latter being colored,
rHE bill to give women who register
to vote for school committee vote
also on the granting of liquor licenses,
has passed toe Massachusetts HouEe
OF Representatives.
In Eogland single women and
widows havo had full municipal
suffrage for eighteen years. Mr.. Glad
stone says they exercise IL without
detriment, and with great Vantage"
A CALIFORNIA woman, In trying to
make cradle !s- he- baby, biz oi; al
idea and invented an orange box. She
now owns and runs the factory which
makes nine tenths OF the orange boxes
for the Pacific coast.
Mps ELvIRA INzULzA DIAE has 70.
ceivsd the diploma OF lioentiste in
medicine and pharmacy at the hands
of the rector of the University, Valpa-
rsiso, Chill, who congratulated her as
the hfst OF her sex to receive 1t in
Chill.
The woman suffrage amendment
had majority In both branches of the
Maine Legislature. The hual vote
stood. In the Senate, 10 to 13, and in
the House 81 to AZ. This, though
short OF the necessary two-thirds, was
good vote.
THR jury at Surrey sessions, in Eng
land, made a strong preeentment in
favor Of applying the lash to the ba ks
OF IuthaRs who outrage women, and
the chairman, Sir w. Hsrdman, ex-
pressed his full concurrence with the
recommendation OF the grand jury.
The Lutherans are about to intro
duce into this country an order Of dea.
conessts. John d. Lanekeman, OF
Philadelphia, has given 100000 to
establish German hospital in that
city, In which these deaconesses shall
be employed, and school for their
education.
Mrs. MARY A. LIvRRMoRK, in a re-.
cent address to the students OF Bates
College, admonished them to look on
q healthiul body as the foundation Of
a vigorous mind, She maintained
that The American girl was slender
and graceful enough by nature, and
needed no Coissts.
MHs. L.aAN gives a striking in lance
OF the discrimination made in he pay
of government clerks on account OF
sex. She says: mo lady 10 allowed
the same ga airy 10 the higher grade OF
clerkships, no mater how well she
fills the higher salarisd desks, aad
many of them are today in those pc.
sitions, but do not receive the pay.
MISS N. B CUMMINGS, now the libra
riau Of the Department Of Justiee Of